10 Day Comprehensive DBT Training 2017

Dr. Swenson will direct and teach this rigorous, engaging ten-day training to cover DBT’s extensive knowledge base, to improve the DBT practice of every therapist and every team, and to offer what is needed to prepare for certification as a DBT therapist.

What can you expect from this training?

To cover DBT’s extensive knowledge base including:

Pertinent research findings

How to implement and maintain a DBT program

How to build and support the DBT consultation team

How to select and orient patients to DBT

How to understand and utilize underlying principles of behaviorism, mindfulness, and dialectics throughout DBT

How to structure the treatment with goals, stages, and targets; functions and modes; agreements and assumptions

How to use and integrate all treatment strategies

How to assess and treat suicidal crises

How to structure and lead a DBT skills training group, and how to teach and reinforce all DBT skills

To actually practice conducting DBT’s strategies, with feedback

To complete practice assignments and comprehensive knowledge exam between Parts 1 and 2

Special Features of this Comprehensive Training

Applications will be accepted from DBT teams, individual clinicians who are on DBT teams, and independent practitioners with the intention of working with other DBT practitioners in their home settings

Presenter

Charles Swenson, M.D., is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Originally trained in psychoanalysis, he undertook training in DBT and CBT beginning in 1987. He has directed more than 35 ten-day DBT workshops over the past twenty years, teaching several hundred teams, has conducted about a dozen advanced workshops, and has implemented DBT in outpatient, inpatient, day treatment, residential, case management, and crisis settings.

He is considered to be an inspiring teacher who brings DBT to life with clinical examples and demonstrations. Having published numerous articles and book chapters on the uses of DBT in treating borderline personality disorder, he is currently under contract with Guilford Press, writing a book for advanced DBT therapists, expected to be out in the fall of 2015.

He treats his own patients—adults, adolescents, and families—in a private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts, and writes and performs songs about DBT even when they are not requested.

Dates

Part 1: April 24-28, 2017
Part 2: October 23-27, 2017
8:30am – 5:00pm

Cost and Registration

Full Price: $2,300 per person

Discounted Price for Teams of 3 or more (20%): $1,840 per person

Student Price (Graduate Students in MH Professions): $1,200 per person

Important: If you are part of a team, make sure to select the Team Ticket option when registering to receive the discount. If you would like to register a group in one transaction please contact Pamela Wicinas: pwicinas@cutchins.org

Registration closes April 10, 2017 or when space fills.

Location and Lodging

The training takes place on the lovely Smith College campus at:
Smith College Conference Center
49 College Lane
Northampton, MA 01063. Click here for directions.